From poelstra at redhat.com Fri Feb 1 05:16:24 2008 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:16:24 -0800 Subject: Feature Status for Fedora 9 Alpha--Please Help Message-ID: <47A2AB28.3050500@redhat.com> Dear Feature Owners, The Alpha release for Fedora 9 is scheduled to start on February 5, 2008. As we begin the Alpha for Fedora 9 more attention inside and outside of Fedora will be drawn to on what is coming in Fedora 9. Here is an opportunity to give everyone a good first impression and provide as much helpful information as we can. With this in the mind, we have a few feature pages have not had a status updates in more than 15 days and some much longer than that. This can leave the impression that nothing is happening with a particular feature or that work has stopped. Even if nothing new has happened since the last update, it is still helpful to do a quick review of your feature page to see if something can be updated and then update the "last updated" date and percentage completion (if applicable). Here are the features which haven't been recently updated: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureEncryptedFilesystems http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/freeIPA http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GoodHaskellSupport http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureMoreNetworkManager http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageKit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PartitionResizing http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ServerProvides http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XserverOnePointFive This is also a great time to fill out the "Release Notes" and "Documentation" sections of your feature page--particularly if it is presently blank, "TBD" or intentionally vague :). The Documentation Team is eager to start preparing the release notes and documentation for Fedora 9 even if you cannot provide all the final details now. The following features have incomplete "Release Notes" and/or "Documentation" sections. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBluetooth http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureClockApplet http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFingerprint http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC4.3 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/K12Linux http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureMoreNetworkManager http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PartitionResizing http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PreUpgrade http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/SecondStageInstallSource http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ServerProvides http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XserverOnePointFive http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAuthentication http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtPolicyKit http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtStorage http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops Thank you for your help, The Feature Wrangler From dimitris at glezos.com Sat Feb 2 00:07:57 2008 From: dimitris at glezos.com (Dimitris Glezos) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 02:07:57 +0200 Subject: Elvis-hosted modules to be moved on 18/2 Message-ID: <6d4237680802011607k74060952ie22db9b40c46006c@mail.gmail.com> **NOTE**: This is an *opt out* move of Fedora-as-upstream packages to a new hosting service. If you feel your package(s) cannot participate in this move, you must explicitly state it on the wiki page. Read on for full details. Hey all. In the previous release cycle, we initiated a move of the modules hosted on rhlinux.redhat.com (aka i18n.r.c, elvis), over to Fedora systems [1]. The benefits are fairly obvious: work closer with the community, development efficiency (versioning system of choice baby!), administration ease (Fedora Account System, fedorahosted.org), well-integrated L10n tools, and a better translation workflow. Good stuff! :) We'll be having another, *final move* of the rest of the modules on the 18th of February 2008. The modules listed on the following coordination page are ones that Fedora is upstream, hosted on elvis, active, and receiving translations -- they will be moved to the maintainer's VCS of choice on Fedora Infrastructure. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/FinalElvisMove IIRC, we currently do cvs, svn, hg, git, bzr. Projects hosted on cvs.fedoraproject.org can receive translations directly. All modules will be listed on the Translation Statistics page [2] and will use Transifex [3] (already in production) for handling translation submissions from all translators. All past and present elvis contributors (developers, translators, foo) will be mass-emailed with information for the migration, and guided by existing teams to create Fedora accounts and continue their work. The process is *opt out*, so by default all modules listed on the above page will be *moved* (ie. deleted from elvis). Unless requested explicitly, default target is cvs.fpo. If you need one of the above mentioned modules to stay on elvis for a reason, please mark it clearly on the wiki page together with a justification. Any other information we should know (dead projects that shouldn't move, details we should take care, etc) -- just let us know on the wiki page. Thanks for your attention. -d [1]: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-June/msg01992.html [2]: http://translate.fedoraproject.org/ [3]: https://translate.fedoraproject.org/submit/ -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos at jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Feb 5 15:25:25 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:25:25 -0500 Subject: Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha Message-ID: <20080205102525.4748a9f5@redhat.com> A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened! The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora's development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at what new features will be included in the next release and also an opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible. Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha: * GNOME 2.21 Development Release * KDE 4.0 * Firefox 3 Beta 2 * Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install * Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems * PackageKit * Kernel 2.6.24 And numerous other improvements and enhancements. Getting it: ========== The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent. For direct http access to a local mirror: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/ For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/ For bittorrent: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ More Information: ============ For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the release notes page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From jkeating at redhat.com Fri Feb 8 21:02:00 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:02:00 -0500 Subject: Massrebuilds for GCC 4.3 coming soon to a buildsystem near you! Message-ID: <20080208160200.18f2dff6@redhat.com> In accordance with http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/gcc43MassRebuildProposal (which got FESCo approval) we (Fedora Release Engineering) will be conducting a mass rebuild of Fedora packages for gcc 4.3. I have the first iteration of a script that will detect packages that haven't yet been built with gcc 4.3. The output is sorted by package owner. There is a small bug right now in that packages that have never actually been built in koji (imported from Extras/Fedora Core 6) are automatically added to the list, even if they are noarch. I'm working on fixing that. I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43 and either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji, as there are a lot of queries). Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of packages that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later. We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of an autorebuild. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From mmcgrath at redhat.com Mon Feb 11 18:07:23 2008 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:07:23 -0600 (CST) Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-02-01 15:15 UTC Message-ID: There was an outage starting at 2008-02-01 15:15 UTC, which will lasted approximately 35 minutes. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-02-01 15:15 UTC' Affected Services: Buildsystem Transifex Unaffected Services: Websites (except transifex) CVS / Source Control Buildsystem Database DNS Mail Torrent Fedora Hosted Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/385 Reason for Outage: xen2 rebooted, not sure what happened or why yet. Looking closer, interested parties please track the ticket. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Feb 11 21:57:07 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:57:07 -0500 Subject: Massrebuilds for GCC 4.3 coming soon to a buildsystem near you! In-Reply-To: <20080208160200.18f2dff6@redhat.com> References: <20080208160200.18f2dff6@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20080211165707.578f4761@redhat.com> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:02:00 -0500 Jesse Keating wrote: > I've posted the list at http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/need43 and > either tonight or tomorrow I'll be setting up a cron job to keep this > list updated once an hour or so (depending on how much it hurts koji, > as there are a lot of queries). > > Maintainers are invited to rebuild now, to lower the number of > packages that will get a scripted rebuild by releng later. > > We're also still discussing a way to allow maintainers to opt-out of > an autorebuild. Over the last couple days I've made a few improvements to the script. A) Skip noarch builds that were imported into koji from Extras/FC6. B) Include a timestamp at the top (UTC ISO format) C) Support a blacklist. It's this last item that I bring to your attention now. The current list on my fedorapeople page is accurate as of the time stamp. If you wish to have us blacklist one or more of your packages, please mail rel-eng at fedoraproject.org with your request and we'll add it to the blacklist. (see http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=releng;a=blob;f=scripts/need-rebuild-gcc43.py;hb=HEAD#l12 ) Future runs of the script will take your request into account remove them from the posted list. We do ask that you provide some reasoning as to why you wish to blacklist your build. Cheers! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Locking, however, continued to fail as the kernel cannot change which port this is running on without a reboot. rpcinfo -p continued to show the old port regardless of what we set it to. Epic fail. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. From jkeating at redhat.com Mon Feb 18 17:55:18 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:55:18 -0500 Subject: GCC 4.3 mass rebuilds delayed until later this afternoon In-Reply-To: <20080218091431.1aef5f0d@redhat.com> References: <20080218091431.1aef5f0d@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20080218125518.5e98aa40@redhat.com> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:14:31 -0500 Jesse Keating wrote: > I will send mail when the building will begin, I'm shooting to start > in about 3~ hours. The builds have started. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Which means no more blacklist requests. josh From mmcgrath at redhat.com Tue Feb 19 13:25:13 2008 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:25:13 -0600 (CST) Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-02-19 11:38 UTC Message-ID: There was an outage starting at 2008-02-19 11:38 UTC, which will last approximately 1.5 hours. To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run: date -d '2008-02-19 11:38 UTC' Affected Services: Websites Buildsystem Database Unaffected Services: DNS Mail Torrent CVS / Source Control Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/385 Reason for Outage: This morning we saw the database fill up on connections causing a partial outage of things like the account system, buildsystem and other such systems. It seems to have recovered on its own though a half hour or so later xen2 crashed. Its unclear if the db filling up was the result of unusually high load that then crashed the server or if this was a completely unrelated issue. In the meantime less load is being put that specific host in effort to stablize the environment. The long term fix is being formulated by release engineering and the Infrastructure team. These outages are unacceptable and we're working to put more resources towards fixing them. Sorry for the inconvenience. Contact Information: Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to track the status of this outage. From dennis at ausil.us Thu Feb 21 20:18:09 2008 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:18:09 -0600 Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-02-29 06:00 UTC Message-ID: <200802211418.15971.dennis@ausil.us> There will be an outage starting at 2008-02-29 06:00 UTC, which will last approximately 1 hour. 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URL: From rdieter at math.unl.edu Fri Feb 22 21:02:54 2008 From: rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:02:54 -0600 Subject: qt4-4.3.4 adds GPLv3 Message-ID: <47BF387E.60001@math.unl.edu> qt4-4.3.4, which will be landing in rawhide shortly, is now available under GPLv3 too, making it's slightly convoluted License tag now: License: GPLv3 or GPLv2 with exceptions or QPL See also: http://trolltech.com/company/newsroom/announcements/press.2008-01-18.1601592972 qt4 updates for previous releases (F-7, F-8) will come soon. -- Rex From poelstra at redhat.com Sat Feb 23 00:15:40 2008 From: poelstra at redhat.com (John Poelstra) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:15:40 -0800 Subject: Fedora 9 Feature Freeze Approaching--All Feature Owners Please Read Message-ID: <47BF65AC.7010506@redhat.com> Greetings from Feature Country, If you are a current Fedora 9 feature owner, please make sure your feature has been accepted and is listed on this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList. If you expected to find your feature there, but did not, please make sure your feature page is complete and in CategoryProposedFeature so that I can propose it for acceptance at FESCo's next meeting. Just a brief reminder that the Fedora 9 Feature Freeze is currently schedule for Tuesday, March, 4, 2008. This means a few things. First, after this date *no new features will be accepted for Fedora 9* as we shift our attention from development and testing to stabilization, testing, testing, and testing. Second, with the Fedora 9 Beta release following the freeze date we will be asking all feature owners to review their feature pages to make sure they are current, update the % of completion and "last updated date". Information on these pages will serve as a community focal point for your feature. Third, any features that are not complete by the freeze date will be evaluated by FESCo to determine if they should remain in Fedora 9 or be deferred to a future release. If you know for sure that your feature is not ready for Fedora 9, please change its feature page to CategoryProposedFeature to save us time making this determination. The complete feature process is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy Thanks for your help, The Feature Wrangler From mspevack at redhat.com Sat Feb 23 18:06:45 2008 From: mspevack at redhat.com (Max Spevack) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:06:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: Fedora 10's FUDCon Message-ID: The next North American FUDCon will be in Boston, MA. It will be held from June 19-21, in parallel with this year's Red Hat Summit. For information and to sign up: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10 Thanks, Max From mspevack at redhat.com Sat Feb 23 18:15:36 2008 From: mspevack at redhat.com (Max Spevack) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:15:36 +0100 Subject: Fedora 10's FUDCon Message-ID: <000701c87648$16456a70$ba00000a@grecom.local> The next North American FUDCon will be in Boston, MA. It will be held from June 19-21, in parallel with this year's Red Hat Summit. For information and to sign up: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF10 Thanks, Max -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list From mmcgrath at redhat.com Mon Feb 25 15:17:42 2008 From: mmcgrath at redhat.com (Mike McGrath) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:17:42 -0600 (CST) Subject: Frequent Buildsystem outages Message-ID: Over the last week we've seen a large increase in buildsystem outages. Some for only a few minutes, some for a couple of hours. Most of the longer outages were due to us probing and testing new things. There are a number of issues we're working on right now and while its not totally clear if last weeks mass rebuild caused some of these issues to come out of the woodwork, it did cause more load on the boxes in question. We've been able to mitigate some of these issues to cause as little impact on the environment as possible but without more hardware (which is on the way) its likely we'll continue to have outages from time to time. At its core we have 3 main issues that, at this time, seem unrelated but all of which caused at least 1 outage last week. 1) load on the db and connections to the db cause other applications to not work. We've disabled search engines (robots.txt) and a few db heavy selects to help mitigate this issue for now. 2) Our NFS server has, on a couple of occasions, had lockd fail and leave its port open. This causes lockd to be unable to restart, specifying a different port allows lockd to restart but because the kernel is unaware of this new port, rpcinfo still reports the wrong port and clients can't connect to it. An update to nfs-utils was suggested and with this new version we have yet to see this problem, its still a bit early but hopefully this is also fixed. 3) Machine instability. Unfortunately the physical machine running both the nfs share and releng1 (where bodhi lies) reboots. I've submitted a bug with the kernel on this, unfortunately we just don't have much information to go on: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429469 We've got a logger on the console but have yet to capture anything. As always we appreciate your understanding, we're working on it and hope the instabilities will level out soon. -Mike From jonstanley at gmail.com Mon Feb 25 20:05:36 2008 From: jonstanley at gmail.com (Jon Stanley) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:05:36 -0500 Subject: Fedora bug workflow - process change Message-ID: As many of you know, I have been working on relaunching a triage team within Fedora, which is coming Real Soon Now(TM). Part of the effort is streamlining the current Bugzilla workflow (or lack thereof). These workflow guidelines were approved at the FESCo meeting on January 24, 2008. Note the use of the word guidelines, these aren't hard and fast rules that we are imposing on people. If you have a good reason to break them, feel free - but this is the mantra that the triage team will be going by. When a reporter enters a bug, the report automatically starts out in a NEW state. The triage team will be primarily looking at bugs in this state. From this state, the triage team can either change the status to ASSIGNED (which indicates that the bug is well defined and triaged), or use the NEEDINFO state to request additional information from the reporter, or close the bug (either as a duplicate of an existing one, or using other closure reasons - CANTFIX for problems with proprietary drivers or kernels that have such drivers loaded, for example). The ASSIGNED state is a state that has a new meaning - it used to mean that the bug was actually assigned to a person. Instead, it now means that the bug is capable of being worked on by a maintainer - i.e. the triage team believes that this is a complete, actionable bug - i.e. with a stack trace for a crasher, various log files for other components, complete AVC message for SELinux stuff, etc. When a maintainer has a fix for a bug checked into CVS, they should move the state of the bug to MODIFIED. This is an indication that the fix is indeed in CVS, and has likely had a build submitted against it. You may want to (though it's certainly not required) post a link to the koji build so that the adventuresome tester can go grab a copy and verify the fix. Once a maintainer submits an update via bodhi against a particular bug, and the update hits updates-testing, the state of the bug will transition via bodhi to ON_QA. This is a indication to the reporter of the bug that there is a fix for the bug available, and that they should test the package that's in updates-testing, and report on it via bodhi and/or as a comment in the Bugzilla. The comment used by bodhi is now more verbose as to how to give feedback via bodhi. The final change is that NEEDINFO bugs are eligible to be closed by the triage team (after review that the information has not been provided, that it's not the maintainer that the NEEDINFO is requested of, etc) after 30 days of inactivity. A stock message will be provided to triagers (yet to be written) with which to close these bugs. For further information, please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers. Contact information can be found at the "Getting Involved" section for further discussion or help, which is always welcome. The workflow (complete with diagram) can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow Sorry for such a long e-mail, I just wanted to make certain that everyone was informed of these changes and an impending launch of the BugZappers! From jkeating at redhat.com Tue Feb 26 19:41:49 2008 From: jkeating at redhat.com (Jesse Keating) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:41:49 -0500 Subject: Fedora 9 Beta freeze coming! Message-ID: <20080226144149.6b12d983@redhat.com> The Sulphur is getting cold.... The Beta freeze is one week away (March 4th)! What does this mean for you? Beta freeze is a blocking freeze, that is when we freeze, rawhide will compose from the freeze set, not from any future builds done in the devel/ cvs branch. If you need a build tagged for the beta, you'll need to mail rel-eng at fedoraproject.org with your build and reasoning for including it in the beta. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview#head-7dfffd8d508d35c931d4b7cc519fce1b00019e4c for details. Once the Beta has been composed, rawhide will open up again and pick up the builds that have been done since the freeze, and we'll march our way toward the final freeze. It is worth noting that the Beta freeze is also the Feature and String freezes for Fedora 9. After Beta release we'll start allowing pre-branching of packages for Fedora 9. This will allow maintainers to stabilize software in the F-9/ branch while continuing on future development in the devel/ branch. More on that later! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: From dennis at ausil.us Fri Feb 29 07:22:59 2008 From: dennis at ausil.us (Dennis Gilmore) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:22:59 -0600 Subject: Outage Notification - 2008-02-29 06:00 UTC In-Reply-To: <200802211418.15971.dennis@ausil.us> References: <200802211418.15971.dennis@ausil.us> Message-ID: <200802290123.08362.dennis@ausil.us> On Thursday 21 February 2008, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > There will be an outage starting at 2008-02-29 06:00 UTC, which will last > approximately 1 hour. > > To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto > or run: > > date -d '2008-02-29 06:00 UTC' > > Affected Services: > > Websites > CVS / Source Control > Buildsystem > Database > DNS > Mail > Torrent > > Unaffected Services: > None > > Ticket Link: > > https://fedorahosted.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/347 > > Reason for Outage: > > Switching all fedora servers to UTC > > Contact Information: > > Please join #fedora-admin in irc.freenode.net or respond to this email to > track > the status of this outage. This work has been completed. Note that this is most visible on the koji web interface. All servers are now using UTC for their time zone. Dennis -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: